Re: difficulties finding some messages

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Figured it out -- the agent's version of the group had somehow gotten
out of sync with the group itself. Un-agenting my nnml server, deleting
the agent's cache, and then turning it back on solved the problem.

So many things to keep in lockstep...


Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Ugh, that group is totally borked. Incoming mail is split into the
> correct directory and written to disk, but doesn't appear in the group
> and can't be accessed from within gnus. What can I do to just start over
> with this group?
>
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> I'm having a weird experience trying to get gnus to display some
>> messages in nnml. My present main group is "nnml:mail.misc_2012", and if
>> I ask to enter it, gnus tells me I can see a grand total of 14,394
>> articles. If I say okay, it takes a while, and then produces a summary
>> buffer with 11,207 lines in it. Filtering on authors, for instance,
>> omits some messages that I know are in the group, because I can go to
>> them by article number, and there they are -- clearly messages that
>> should have been shown by the author filter.
>>
>> The weirdness extends to nnir/namazu. If I conduct a namazu search on
>> the command line for a particular author, I get nine results. If I do
>> that exact same search via GG in the *Group* buffer, I get five of those
>> nine results, plus an extra one that has nothing to do with my search
>> criteria, and didn't appear on the command line. Looking at the command
>> line results, I can use "j" in the summary buffer to jump to the correct
>> message, but gnus won't show me those messages otherwise.
>>
>> What the heck is going on here? Why so many different types of results?
>> Running "wc -l" in the "misc_2012" directory shows me 14,349, and this
>> is also the number that appears in the "active" file. 14,394 is the
>> number in my .newsrc.eld file, and what I'm offered when I ask to see
>> all messages. 11,207 is apparently what I get when I see "all" messages.
>>
>> Does anyone know what might be going on? Is there some sort of "reset"
>> option that will re-sync all the appropriate numbers?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eric